A Maine politician sent Canadians an unprompted offer to join the US

https://wgme.com/news/local/a-maine-politician-sent-canadians-an-unprompted-offer-to-join-the-us-sen-joe-martin-president-donald-trump-british-columbia-alberta-saskatchewan-manitoba

A bit older but something I didn't see until now showing how US Republicans are just the worst and the dumbestas Canadian tourism is DOA.

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NABDad@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 335d (2 replies)

Republicans. If they aren't threatening to secede from the United States, they're pretending that everyone else wants to join the United States.

Triumph@fedia.io · 30 pts · 335d (1 reply)

Republicans: is there anything they’re not hypocritical about?

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 335d

If they didn't have hipocrisy, there would only be blessed scilence.

kescusay@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 335d (23 replies)

Not sure this guy understands that if that actually happened, no Republican would ever win the presidency again, and the House and Senate would instantly flip to the Democrats.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 22 pts · 335d

Not sure this guy understands

That's far enough.

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 11 pts · 335d

Don't threaten me with a good time, eh?!

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 334d (1 reply)

Cute of you to assume “Canada” would be given states rights. No no no my friend. At worst we’d be a Guam, or a Puerto Rico. With no political power whatsoever. At best, we’d be a neverending insurgency fought in the tree line.

SGforce@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 334d

Did that tree just call me a hoser?

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 335d (16 replies)

I'm Canadian and I'm not confident most Canadians would vote democrat

kescusay@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 335d (8 replies)

That's disheartening. I've been under the impression that even most of your conservatives generally find Republicans to be completely cuckoo. Is that not the case?

Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 334d (4 replies)

That's becoming less and less the case I think, but we rejected their politics in the voting booth, so time will tell

Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 334d (3 replies)

we rejected their politics in the voting booth

This time. Polls last fall had PP set to win. Then Trump came along and we rejected it all. But now Carney, who rode to a win on "elbows up" appears to be putting his elbows down and is caving to Trump. I don't expect he'll win a second time.

Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 334d (2 replies)

Yeah, it's not encouraging, I'm starting to get my shit together for the inevitable rise of evangelistic corporate terrorism in Canada

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 333d (1 reply)

US won’t outright attack Canada with the full force of their military but they will and are trying to coerce us into becoming a state by convincing maga rednecks in Alberta to leave Canada.

Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 333d

I know, and my point still stands, I'm still prepping, the takeover of the internet is closer than that still

... Still

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 334d (2 replies)

Not voting Democrat doesn't automatically mean yes voting Republican, after all, more parties are legally allowed...right?

kescusay@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d

Unfortunately, we have a first-past-the-post election system in most of the country (a very few places have ranked-choice). What that means is that most of the time, voting for anyone besides a Democrat or a Republican amounts to throwing your vote away.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 334d

Kang or Kudos.

Horsey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d (5 replies)

MB would be a swing state that leans left, SK would be 55:45 R, AB would be 70:30 R, ON would be a bellwether swing state like NY was for centuries. QC, the coastals, and the Arctics would be blue states.

BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 334d (4 replies)

I mostly agree but I’d say AB would be closer to 90:10 R. I’ve got family and friends there and it’s very conservative. I don’t actually know a single liberal Albertan.

The rest is spot on though.

Horsey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d (2 replies)

For context, we don’t have a single state that is 80:20 R. WV/WY are the closest we have, and even then it’s basically 70:30.

BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 334d (1 reply)

The most recent federal election here was 92% conservative in Alberta

Killer57@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 334d

That's only because the farmers here are stupid, but that sadly seems to be the case for most uneducated people.

Killer57@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 332d

You clearly don't know anyone from the capital city.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 334d

~20% would vote Trump, about 95% of Alberta.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d

And America would start winning a lot more Hockey tournaments.

njm1314@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d

Oh I think you are way too optimistic.

sparcipx@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 334d (1 reply)

Speaking as a Manitoban, “Fuck the fuck off.”

kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d

Maybe this is some sort of US government plan to make it so Americans wont be allowed to flee to Canada. Its like the Handmaid's tale only if we make it over the river into Canada the Canadian border patrol will grab us and toss us back onto US soil.

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 334d

I counter offer. Fuck off and go salute your fascist, child rapist felon rump. After the violence that ice has been doing to every day people while most of you americans sit around watching youtube and twitch while regular people are being murdered by their own makes me ill. Well there is a couple of things the average american does well. Apathy and avarice.

DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 335d

Keep track of the Canadians going to America for fun while fascists rule.

sturmblast@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 335d

These people are idiots.

TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 335d

Hey buddy, why don't you make like a tree and fuck off

verdi@feddit.org · 11 pts · 333d (1 reply)

I think we should stop calling them republicans and call them what they really are. Confederates!

SecretSauces@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d

Or maybe traitors

kreskin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 333d (1 reply)

Any US state would be lucky to be invited to join Canada instead. For the poutine and less war crimes alone.

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 333d

Less war crimes these days.

Those sap sucking, puck slapping, monsters of the north INVENTED war crimes!

Would you like another tin of beans?

GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 334d

I was more pissed off when I saw this 2 months ago, less so when I saw it again last month. I'm not saying it shouldn't be posted, but this is a repost and old news. At least highlight the date in the submission.

Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 334d

He may be flouting the Logan Act here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 335d

Kindly get fucked, eh

TuffNutzes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d

Join me and together we can rule the galaxy.

Expressions uttered by Sith Lords and MAGA Republicans.

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 335d

Oh, how delightful. /s

tal@olio.cafe · 4 pts · 335d (6 replies)

I would assume that he just wants friction. If he wants to generate an actual international incident, he should try to get a bunch of wackjobs out of Maine to go sit on Macchias Seal Island. That's the subject of an actual, unresolved US/Canadian territorial dispute, so from a US federal standpoint, Maine has a right to do whatever it wants there. Canada, in turn, has a history of aiming to establish a precedent of its authority over it and I expect isn't going to ignore a bunch of right-wingers out of the US setting up camp there.

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 334d (4 replies)

I saw a documentary about a group that tried this during Trump’s first term in office.

The locals just referred to them as whacko American tourists, sold them kitsch, and otherwise left them alone, other than for the Canadian locals to politely refuse them entry to Canadian or environmentally restricted areas and facilities.

The locals (both Canadian and American) figured eventually some nutjob from away would make a bigger stink, but until then, they saw things as relatively in hand.

I’m surprised Noem hasn’t showed up there yet, like she did to the library that straddles the border.

tal@olio.cafe · 1 pts · 334d (3 replies)

If they were selling them stuff, this probably wasn't Macchias Seal Island, though it might be some other border area. There's not much there.

kagis

Oh, apparently someone is raising it this term, though.

https://www.restore.org/maineenvironews/2025/6/3/a-fight-may-loom-over-tiny-machias-seal-island

The Republican leader of the state House, Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham of Winter Harbor, last week urged President Donald Trump to defend “sovereignty over our waters,” referring to the little island in the Gulf of Maine.

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 334d (2 replies)

I’m pretty sure that’s the one; only thing there is a Canadian lighthouse and a seal preserve, right? Most of the action takes place out on boats; the one group that tried to “stake a claim” on the island left with the first bad weather.

tal@olio.cafe · 1 pts · 334d (1 reply)

Yeah, that's it. That'd make more sense if people were selling stuff on boats. I was just saying that there isn't really, like, industry on the island to be selling anything.

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 334d

Well, unless the seals are getting creative to survive….

dickalan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 334d

Or do the worst possible fucking thing and inspire a bunch of Americans on TikTok YouTube and other social media to do it themselves

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d

File an international arrest order for insurrection. Maybe he'll never leave the hole he lives in, but if...

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 334d

What a tard

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 3 pts · 335d

"Donny, look at me! Look, I did a thing, just like you! Surely this will get me an appreciative troot from you? Oh Donny, boost my career!"

shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d (2 replies)

Hope the new guy wipes the GOP off the map in Maine. Look, I'm a weepy little bitch once you get a few beers in me, but first time I saw his campaign launch video, well, my face got wet, for... reasons. You'll see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53bZ_95nDjk

Ah, fuck. Getting weepy again. Watch that video. You will want to scream and cry. I have no idea what party he's running under. And I don't care. GOP? No problem, I'd vote for that man no matter what.

My god, why can't the fucking Democrats get behind that message?! Campaigns would no longer be competitions.

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d (1 reply)

My god, why can’t the fucking Democrats get behind that message?!

??? He is running as a Democrat!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Platner

running in the Democratic primary in the 2026 United States Senate election in Maine,

dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 333d

OP is on something.

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 333d

I wonder how serious other countries will take American refugee status after we start WWIII over the currency crashing?

whereyaaat@lemmings.world · -14 pts · 334d (1 reply)

I'd love to see Canada become part of the US.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 334d

Get out.